Word: singlestick
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...FIND-Edgcumb Pinchon-Knopf ($2.50). Sturdy, vivid semi-autobiographical tale of a boy's adventures on the Isle of Wight and in the New Forest in Victorian times. Gypsy firesides to which the boy's own Gypsy blood entices him and an ancient school where he learns singlestick and archery provide the picaresque background for adolescent rebellions and escapades...
...pushing the aileran controls from side to side with the shoulders as an "instinctive" means of banking, and his wheel for steering. Bleriot used the Deperdussin method of operating the ailerons with a wheel mounted atop the elevator stick. Out of these and many more experiments came the singlestick control as it is almost universally used today...
...Esnault-Pelterie applied for a U. S. patent on what he now calls the singlestick control. The patent was issued in 1914, will expire Nov. 3 next. Seven years ago Esnault-Pelterie filed suit against the U. S. because planes used by Army & Navy had joy-sticks.* Also he sued Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Co. and Chance-Vought Corp. for their commercial planes. The Fairchild com pany settled out of court this year. The Vought case is pending in New York. The claim against the Government lay dormant until recently when Claims Com missioner Hayner H. Gordon reopened the case. Should...
...yards dash (open to club members only), 440-yards dash (open to club members only), running high jump, running broad jump, standing broad jump, bicycle race, two miles (open to all amateurs), tug of war (teams of four, limited in weight to 650 pounds, 10 min. limit), fencing, singlestick, tennis singles (open to all amateurs). Gold and silver medals will be given for first and second prizes, except for fencing, singlestick and tennis, for which first prizes of pewter cups will be given. The rules of the National Association of Amaturs will govern the meeting. Entrance fee, 50 cents...
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